I Don't Blog Every Day

2026-04-15

A while ago—I don't remember exactly when or how—I came across a pair of posts: Going Back To Daily Blogging[*] and My Blogging Workflow: A routine for nearly a post a day for 4 months straight.[*]. Both of them touch on writing and blogging habits.

Going Back To Daily Blogging

My Blogging Workflow: A routine for nearly a post a day for 4 months straight.

I do not write a blog post every day. I don't try to. I've done it for brief stretches, during Blaugust[*]. It quickly felt like a chore. It felt exhausting.

Blaugust

For that matter, it's a good day when I even get a Mastodon post out. Though that may be a little different. Posting on social media has never come naturally to me; I have little to no impulse to express myself that way.

I do have one daily writing habit. I've been Journalling every evening for quite a while now, almost four years[*]. I have a physical notebook where I write about my day.

four years

There is a more aspirational bout of morning writing that I do. It doesn't happen every day and it's not quite the 750 words that Brennan talks about, but it's something similar. Again, this is in a dedicated physical notebook (while the evening journaling is done with a fancy fountain pen (varying) in a fancy notebook (Leuchtturm), this is a cheap composition book. It consists of a simple brain dump. I stream-of-conciousness onto the page until I reach the bottom. There are rarely any "useful" ideas in there. That's okay. The point isn't to get anything useful. It's not even a rough draft. The point, for me, is really just to prove to myself that I do have things to say, if only I let my filters down. I often feel like that is something I need to prove.

I don't have much in the way of an explicit "process" for writing my blog posts. I just "have an idea" sometimes and then I write a little about it. Often the starting point is simply a vague feeling that I want to blog about *something*. I don't do drafts or revision. Sometimes I don't even remember to fix all the misspelled words. This is a rough blog. It took me a long time to decide on a title for all this. I think the one I have now "Axxuy's Internet Notebook" captures the spirit well.

What are your writing habits like?

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